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EzekielRaiden reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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Because D&D is not a board game. It's a story. And you can have a thrilling combat that is narratively satisfying to all the players... -
EzekielRaiden reacted to Edgar Ironpelt's post in the thread D&D General Who put all this Sci-Fi in my soup!? with Love.
As others have pointed out, sci-fi artifacts and elements in D&D and in fantasy in general has been a trope for a very long time. It's...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Who put all this Sci-Fi in my soup!?.I have not so much noticed a drift as a return. A new D&D always starts from a pretty pure "Standard D&D Setting" point: faux-European...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.But doesn't this undercut your own argument? Expertise is worse than your claim of the +10 over 20 levels being a problem, because...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.And? You still have training in addition to that. You're acting like it somehow replaces things. No. Which is neither particularly...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.What if we designed a game such that those two motives lead to the same outcomes? Designed it so that trying to keep your character...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.Ahh, victim-blaming. A classic. "It's your fault for getting bored when you literally cannot participate with the game!" And notice, I...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.I disagree, but I should try to sleep. If you care for a more full defense of that scaling, I can present it later.
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Flying Toaster's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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PCs getting taken out of action by all-or-nothing control spells was never any fun, but at least in early editions like B/X or AD&D the... -
EzekielRaiden reacted to Flying Toaster's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Interesting that the Civilization games came up in this conversation. Turn-based 4X strategy games for desktop PCs would not seem to...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.So...a +7 bonus (level 14-15 is mid-level) is now "wildly scaling"? But 5e's stuff doesn't "wildly scale". Kinda strange how that works...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
It's funny how the new UA's introduce the spirit Barbarian and cavalier fighter who both come with 4e style marks. Part of me always...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General How often do you use or encounter Dungeons and/or Dragons in your games?.Precisely because I am a fan of both, I have made a conscious effort to keep them minimal. Moreso dragons than dungeons, since I am a...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.Was it pointless? Was it really? Because it seems to me that we're running into the precise problems caused by having a system that...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Circle Magic Concerns In "Heroes Of Faerun".Therefore we should spend not one penny on making things easier, more approachable, or more pick-up-and-go for GMs. What a wonderful...